There Is The Command Of Jesus And The Apostles That Belief, Repentance, And Baptism By Full Immersion In Water Into Christ Is Essential For Salvation, Always Bearing In Mind That Ultimately Salvation Is A Gift From God.
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•“Then Jesus, when he had been baptized, came up immediately from the water” (Matthew 3:16).
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•“Now John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized”
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•(John 3:23)
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•“Jesus answered: Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).
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•“Go therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you”
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•(Matthew 28:19).
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•“He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:16).
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•“Then Peter said to them: Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins”
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•(Acts 2:38).
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•“How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as where baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:2-4).
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•“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ” (Galatians 3:27).
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•“…that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God in righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:22-24).
